[ENI] A top ecumenical leader has urged churches to recapture a sense of spirituality or risk losing their relevance. "Ecumenical organizations are in trouble spiritually," Dr. Choan-Seng Song, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), said at the organization's executive committee meeting in Michigan. He deplored the public perception that ecumenical institutions are "stressing social and political action without spiritual strength."

The Taiwanese-born church leader noted that mainstream churches are losing members to charismatic churches. He believes that Protestant Christians are suffering from a "credibility problem," leading their ecumenical organizations to also lose financial support. "Spiritual support and financial support are related," Song added.

"We live in a world saturated with information about the life that is political, social, financial, cultural," he said, "but most Christians are not well informed about the life of faith that is biblically grounded and historically developed."